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Kohn-Luttinger superconductivity on two orbital honeycomb lattice

Superconductivity 2019-01-03 v3 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

Motivated by experiments on twisted bilayer graphene, we study the emergence of superconductivity from weak\textit{weak} repulsive interactions in the Hubbard model on a honeycomb lattice, with both spin and orbital degeneracies, and with the filling treated as a tunable control parameter. The attraction is generated through the Kohn-Luttinger mechanism. We find, similar to old studies of single layer graphene, that the leading superconducting instability is in a dd-wave pairing channel close to Van Hove filling, and is in an ff-wave pairing channel away from Van Hove filling. The dd-wave pairing instability further has a twelve-fold degeneracy while the ff-wave pairing instability has a ten-fold degeneracy. We analyze the symmetry breaking perturbations to this model. Combining this with a Ginzburg-Landau analysis, we conclude that close to Van Hove filling, a spin singlet d+idd+id pairing state should form (consistent with several other investigations of twisted bilayer graphene), whereas away from Van Hove filling we propose an unusual spin and orbital singlet ff-wave pairing state.

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@article{arxiv.1808.05270,
  title  = {Kohn-Luttinger superconductivity on two orbital honeycomb lattice},
  author = {Yu-Ping Lin and Rahul M. Nandkishore},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.05270},
  year   = {2019}
}

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10 pages, 3 figures. v3: Published version